Flower Tattoo Designs

Flowers are a thing of beauty.

Who doesn’t like to look at flowers?

With tattoos becoming more popular every day, many women are getting flower tattoo designs. If you are looking to find the best flower tattoo design for yourself, let’s first look at what some flowers stand for. Oh, you didn’t know that flowers represent certain emotions and attributes?

Then you best read on!

When deciding on a flower tattoo design, you need to know what you are tattooing onto your skin for the all the world to see.

Roses

Roses represent love, but each color represents a unique kind of love.

Red Rose
Red roses stand for the most obvious of all the love emotions. It means ‘I love you’ in a amorous way. A flower tattoo design of a red rose is often a meaning of love growing, or in remembrance of a loved one who has passed.

White Rose
A white rose means purity and innocence. When paired with red roses, it means unity.

Yellow Rose
A yellow rose represents friendship.

Lavender Rose
A lavender rose signifies that you are falling in love.

Pink Rose
A pink rose denotes happiness.

You just thought flowers were just pretty and didn’t really mean anything! Flower tattoo designs can carry very strong, compelling meanings. You don’t want a rose tattoo? Ok, here are some more flower tattoo design meanings:

Daisy

Daisies are a sign of innocence and are often associated with joy, so they are often connected to a child’s birth.

Lily

Lilies are flowers often entwined with the name of a beloved person who has passed. Lilies signify remembrance.

Sunflower

Sunflowers can represent the love of sun or God. They can also symbolize the sun and the life it gives.

Jasmine

Jasmine flowers also denote love, particularly in the Indian culture. But apposed to roses, jasmine flowers are smelled from a great distance, representing the fact that even if you are away from your loved one, the love is still very deep.

Lotus

Lotus flowers are a very strong sign of a person’s spirituality and growth. A lotus starts as a small tuber in the mud at the bottom of a river. As they grow, they have to struggle to reach the surface as they seek out the sun. In the Buddhist and Hindu religions, the locus represents the souls’ journey towards enlightenment.

When considering flower tattoo designs, keep in mind that it can be as simple as one flower, but it doesn’t have to be. You can start with one flower and then later add more to make a bouquet, or add vines, butterflies, or birds.

Flowers will always be a timeless symbol of beauty. What more ideal means to express yourself than with a flower tattoo design!